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Saturday, May 13, 2017

How to install Babe Music Player on Ubuntu 16.04 & Higher

Babe Music Player is a promising new tiny Qt Babe music player to keep your favorite songs at hand. Babe will handle all your whole music collections, hence letting you create custom playlists to organize your music with ease. Before we proceed on how to install Babe Music Player on ubuntu, lets look further on what it offers.

Qt Babe Music Player Features

Babe has three different view modes:

the mini mode keeps on top of the windows and its size is just 200x200 px ,just displaying the art and playback controls

the playlist mode is unobtrusive and displays a list of your songs

the collection view let's you browse your whole music collection by tracks, artists and albums, also let's you get information about the current song playing.

search keys to filter the results:

location: (example: to see all the tracks from the YouTube extension: "location:youtube")

artist: (get all matching artists)

album: (get all matching albums)

title: (get all matching titles)

genre: (get all matching genres)

quickly append search results, albums, artists and tracks to the main playlist or save them to a specific playlist

create colored mood tags for tracks that modify the main playlist color

use the chromium extension to babe your favorite youtube music videos and Babe will fetch the art and metadata of the track

quickly move between albums/artists with the playAll button that shows on hover in all the artworks

get native kde notifications for the plasma desktop

add songs to a queued special playlist if you want to play some track next